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Hindustan Times
3rd March 2004

The Wisdom Of The Wise                                                           
Swami Chaitanya Keerti 

Max Ehrmann, an American mystic poet, had a vision and received some profound words. He compiled these words in his famous document: Desiderata. 
Ehrmann functioned as a medium of the divine. Other mystics have also had similar experiences. It happened in the case of Madam Blavatsky, who wrote The Voice of Silence. She discovered the ancient spiritual document in the course of meditations. Osho talks of other mystics who have had similar experiences. According to him, many parts of Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spake Zarathustra are very ancient. 
The first statement in Desiderata says: "Hear then the wisdom of the wise: 'Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence'." 
Osho explains: "The Wisdom of the Wise seems to be tautological. Of course, wisdom can be only of the wise. What is the point of repeating it? Why say 'wisdom of the wise'? Can wisdom be of the unwise too? But there is a subtle point to be understood: because there are so many knowledgeable people in the world and the knowledgeable person appears almost as if he is wise, and he is not. He speaks in the same way. The scholar who has studied the Srimad Bhagavad Gita his whole life speaks the same language as Krishna, but when Krishna speaks it, it is the wisdom of the wise." This is why all mystics lay emphasis on meditation and experience of self-realisation. 
Desiderata tells us the same: "Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence."

The Hindustan Times, New Delhi 
13 March, 2004

Love Nourishes Body, Soul                                                     Back to top  
Swami Chaitanya Keerti 

Love is the most spiritual experience in our life, and it is nourishment for our
body, mind and soul. 

We come to the world, and we don't know why we came. We will die one day and
death will come unannounced. So birth and death is not our choice. 

Between this birth and death, love is the only phenomenon we have some choice
about. Only this choice of love gives us a sense of freedom in our life. 

But unfortunately we live in so unconsciously that even our love becomes reduced
to attachment or bondage, and then love becomes misery. 

The mystic Mirdad says, "Love is the only freedom from attachment. When you love
everything you are attached to nothing." Loving everything and being attached to
nothing simply means the quality of being loving. Love becomes our fragrance. 

And later Mirdad says: "Man made prisoner by the love of a woman and vice versa
are equally unfit for freedom's precious crown. 

But man and woman made as one by love, inseparable, indistinguishable, are
verily entitled to the prize." 

Whether it is man-woman relationship or any other relationship, love is much
more than a relationship, it is a moment to moment process of relating
consciously.

The Hindustan Times
New Delhi, 18 March 2004

Usher In The Age Of Enlightenment                                              Back to top  
Swami Chaitanya Keerti 

The world has progressed much beyond our imagination. But this progress has been
on the outside. Not much has changed in the inner world of the man, he continues
to remain almost the same. The same anger, lust, politics and violence remain,
only expressions have changed. 
Now the time has come that we transform the inner world of the man, to create a
balance between the outer and the inner. We must plant the seeds of meditation
on a vast scale and nourish the seeds, so that they flower everywhere. 

This flowering will usher in the age of enlightenment as never witnessed before. 

Yes, we did witness this age of enlightenment in the times of Buddha and
Mahavira, but that was only in India. Now this is possible in the entire world. 

Osho says: "The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and
wide, and people are brought to one consciousness within themselves... Only when
there are many people who are pools of peace, silence, understanding, will war
disappear. It is only a question of understanding the value of meditation. Then
it is possible for millions to become undivided within themselves. They will be
the first humans to become harmonious. And their harmoniousness, their beauty,
their compassion, their love - all their qualities - are bound to resound around
the world." 

Science has transformed the outer world. The inner world too can be transformed
with the science of spirituality.

Live For Today                                                                            Back to top  
Swami Chaitanya Keerti
19 March

The simplest definition of enlightenment that Osho offers is that to live one's life here-now: this moment is all. He says: "You never have two moments together in your hands, only one single moment. It is such a small moment that there is no space for thinking to move, no space for thoughts to exist. Either you can live it, or you can think. To live it is to be enlightened, to think is to miss."

Osho does not talk about enlightenment as a goal, that you have to decide whether to accept it or not. He says: "Enlightenment is the realisation that we have only the present moment to live. The next moment is not certain - it may come, it may not come."
Jesus says to his disciples, "Look at the lilies in the field, how beautiful they are! Even the great Solomon was not so beautiful attired in all his grandeur as these poor lily flowers." And what is the secret? The secret is that they think not of the morrow. They live now, they live here. To live now is to be enlightened, to live here is to be enlightened, to be a lily is to be enlightened this very moment! Don't think about what I am saying. Don't think about it, just be here. This is the taste of enlightenment. And once you have tasted it, you will want to taste it more and more.
Osho adds: "It will bring you, for the first time, real contentment, real blissfulness, authentic ecstasy. " Once enlightenment gives you a taste of the real, you will see that all your pleasures, all your happinesses were simply the stuff dreams are made of; they were not real. And what has come now, has come forever.
That is the definition of the real: a contentment that comes and never leaves you again is real contentment. A contentment that comes and goes again is not contentment, it is simply a gap between two miseries. Let that be the definition. Anything that comes and never goes is reality. 
Don't be bothered about the word 'enlightenment'. What you call it does not matter; you can call it illumination, you can call it blissfulness, you can call it self-realisation, you can call it actualisation of all your potentials - whatever you want to call it.
But remember one quality: that it knows only a beginning, it knows no end.
Osho Enlightenment Day is on March 21, 1953